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Striking back at the empire: A brief survey of problems in Dworkin's theory of law

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In Law's Empire Dworkin remains committed to carving out a middleground between natural law and legal positivism. But natural law andlegal positivism are best viewed as complementary answers to differ-ent questions, There is no middle ground between them. Nor is thequestion that Dworkin's Integrity asks one that could be coherentlyanswered i f it were an important question. Fortunately, it is not.

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Alexander, L. Striking back at the empire: A brief survey of problems in Dworkin's theory of law. Law Philos 6, 419–438 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00142935

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